btl@mtunf.UUCP (Bernie Lee) (12/18/85)
*** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** I have a 1982 Toyoto Celica GTS, they are the ones with the carburators and live axel. (They were only in production for one year. From 1983-1985, they had fuel injections and ind suspension.) The car came with 225 60HR14 Bridgestone tires. About 10K ago I had changed them to 235 60HR14 Goodyear Eagle GTs and replaced the stock shocks and struts with KYB gas ones
btl@mtunf.UUCP (Bernie Lee) (12/19/85)
*** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** I apologize for the mistake on message 381, please disregard the message. Let me start all over. I have a 1982 Toyoto Celica GTS with live axel. I have about 63K miles on the car. 10K miles ago, I had replaced the stock tire for a set of 235 60R14 Goodyear Eagle GTs. I had discovered that the Goodyears have a much softer side walls than the stock Bridgestone 225 60HR14 Potenza therefore resulting in a slower respond from the tires. Owner manuals recommends 26psi for the stock tires, with the GYs I had raised it to 31 psi in an effort to stiffen up the side walls for quicker response. Please give me the pros and cons of my action. Everyone welcome. With the new tires, I had also noticed their liking to track the car in tire grooves on the roads left by trucks. It gets pretty annoying sometimes, not to say scary when you are going 10/10 on a winding road. It almost feels like you suddenly get a nice dose of understeer or oversteer when you don't need it. Any recommendations on that one. The stock tires has less of a tendencies to do that, but, it happens occasionally. The alignment and balance of the tires had been check three times with two reputatable shops, and everything is to spec. I had also replace the stock struts and shocks with KYB gas struts and shocks. It improved the ride and handling quite a bit, but, the car stills feels floaty at times. I also noticed more body roll ever since I got the new tires. Anyone out there have any suggestion for me? I know the car does have 63K miles on it, so, a lot of parts probabaly needs replacing for it to get back its new car feel and handling. All suggestions and recommendations are welcome.